World Cruises

Never been on a cruise? Your last cruise was a few years ago?

Cruises have expanded in so many ways since the famous Alaska and Caribbean cruises became popular and now seemingly common place. The images in your head of cruises with cramped spaces, looking like the Love Boat or with uncooperative deck chairs have been replaced by extremely comfortable cruises on massive cruise ships.

Cruise prices include essential items such as your stateroom, entertainment, games, and meals. Alcoholic beverages and soft drinks (usually) are extra. There are a large number of cost factors to include when planning your cruise: airfare (often bundled with your cruise booking), casino, insurance, tips, salon and spa treatments, shore excursion fees, and transfers.

Of course your cruise destination shapes the nature of the cruise.

People who don't know the difference between a sail boat and boat on sale should commit these top 10 nautical terms to memory. And, more importantly, don't call a cruise ship a boat.

• Aft: The end of the ship.
• Bridge: They steer the cruise ship from here.
• Disembark: Get off the cruise ship.
• Embarkation: process for getting on the cruise ship.
• Fore: the front of the cruise ship.
• Galley: Cruise ship's kitchen.
• Muster Drill or Lifeboat Drill: mandatory cruise ship safety drill
• Port: The left side of a ship if as you face forward.
• Starboard: The right side of a ship as you face forward.
• Stateroom: A cruise ship cabin

Cruise Destinations

Please look at our Alaska Cruise page for more detail about the mountains, glaciers, and wilderness. The best time to visit is May through August.

This is an all-year cruise destination where you can enjoy both the fun in Nassau and the quiet corners of the islands.

Bermuda's slower pace and English flavour make for a truly restful experience.

With ports of call as diverse as New York City, Sydney Nova Scotia, and Quebec City in the province of Quebec, these cruises offer incredible diversity.

Since Christopher Columbus's day, people have enjoyed the Caribbean. Today Caribbean cruises cover a huge amount of beautiful territory with varied cultures from America to Holland to France to England -- all in the same sea.

Mediterranean Cruises are very popular as are ones that take you across the Atlantic.

Cruising the Hawaiian Islands is a romantic escape where you are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, far away from everything.

• Mexico
• California
• Panama Canal
• Africa & India
• Australia & New Zealand & Tahiti
• South America

Make sure that you know that the person who sells you the cruise may be an agent for one or more cruise ship lines. It's up to you to make sure that all the details are covered.

This is a list cruise ship lines for you to investigate:

• Carnival Cruise Lines
• Celebrity Cruises
• Crystal Cruises
• Disney Cruise Line
• Holland America Line
• MSC Cruises
• Norwegian Cruise Line
• Oceania Cruises
• Orient Lines
• Princess Cruises
• Regent Seven Seas
• Royal Caribbean Int'l
• Windstar Cruises